Samantha Ellwood

Executive Director and Owner

Providence Connections

My mission is to educate and empower early learning professionals to advocate for increased investments in early learning and to not only enhance quality, but also to professionalize the wages enabling staff to continue and grow in their early childhood career.

Office of Child Development and Early Learning

MENTOR

Karen Grimm-Thomas
Director of External Relations

+ Employment History

January 2016

Executive Director

Providence Connections, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA

March 2015

Associate Director of Educational Programs

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

March 2011

Manager of Education Programs

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

March 2010

Assistant Education Staff Manager

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

M.S., Curriculum and Assessment - Elementary Education

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

B.A., Communication, Concentration in Public Relations and Marketing

University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
Johnstown, PA

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